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10 things you can do to help save monarchs
Montreal, 5 June 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) is celebrating World Environment Day with the release of a video highlighting 10 simple actions North American citizens can do to help protect the monarch butterfly and its habitat along its migratory corridors in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Produced in partnership with Environment and Climate Change Canada, Parks Canada,...
June 5, 2017
Celebrated Citizen Science Platform Developed in Arctic Expands its Success Southward
Montreal, 1 June 2017—The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) and the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) invite North Americans to join the increasing number of communities using the Local Environmental Observer (LEO) Network, a unique observation platform where traditional ecological knowledge, local knowledge and science converge to record and highlight instances of unusual change in nature and the environment....
June 1, 2017
Explore innovative approaches to challenges facing North American waterside communities
Join our citizen advisory committee's meeting in-person in Charlottetown, or online via webcast Montreal, 29 May 2017—On 27 June, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Joint Public Advisory Committee (JPAC) will host a public meeting in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on water-related issues and opportunities to promote sustainable job growth and economic prosperity in coastal, shoreline, and riverbank communities...
May 29, 2017
Mayors across the United States, Mexico and Canada Take the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge
This article originally appeared on the National Wildlife Federation Blog In September 2015, the National Wildlife Federation launched the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge in in an effort to engage cities, towns, counties and communities of all kinds to join the effort to help save the Monarch butterfly. Mayor Francis Slay of St. Louis, Missouri proudly became the first to take the pledge, followed...
May 19, 2017
CEC launches plan to support sustainable trade of parrots, sharks, tarantulas, timber, and turtles and tortoises in North America
Ensenada, 17 May 2017—Today, at the annual meeting of the Canada/Mexico/US Trilateral Committee for Wildlife and Ecosystem Conservation and Management, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) released action plans for five priority North American species' groups listed under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), an international treaty that regulates...
May 17, 2017
General public to join North America’s top environmental officials this June to discuss Harnessing Local Innovation for a Healthy Future
Canadian Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna will host her Mexican and United States counterparts to discuss innovation and trilateral environmental cooperation Montreal, 4 May 2017—On June 27 and 28, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) invites the general public to join the annual gathering of its governing body, the Council of the federal environment ministers of Canada, Mexico,...
May 4, 2017
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